YappyMonotheist @ ArgumentativeMonotheist @lemmy.world

Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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It doesn't take balls to tolerate insults/derision, just understanding and patience. 🤷

He got violently assaulted by a seagull and had a gut reaction with a seagull. I know you wanna equate it semantically to people being problematic with people but, again, unless you're even more peaceful and selfless than Aang from ATLA, you're just being emotionally hypocritical. Had he eaten the seagull or composted it to reduce waste, what would the problem be?

I was being facetious, but please do have a nice, protein full meal in my name! I'm gonna have some for dinner soon. 😅

They're genocidal beasts and will go to Hell for 'taking care' of my apartment's cockroach infestation!

I don't take it personally that the further North I go, the more spaced out people are at bus stations and the further South I go, the louder people will talk, I guess.😅 But you're right, we aren't ready for it.

Yep, I hate it too. At least the places I eat at (by myself, not with my wife) barely give you a napkin, you just get the meal and accompanying grease, but still.

Good words and good deeds can go hand in hand!

Western Europeans (Americans are displaced Europeans just like apartheid South Africans and genocidal Israelis), for being such a small group of people in an even smaller land, have managed to cruelly oppress the world since at least the days of Jesus til this day. The consistency (the Romans, the Crusades, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortez, King Leopold's Congo, the Dutch East India Company, the native Australian genocide by the Brits, every American conflict including proxy wars, etc.) is, at the very least, curious. Has chattle slavery even been a thing outside of the Western world?! The most destructive conflicts in recent history were just Western Europeans Vs Western Europeans with displaced Europeans joining in later and some extras! Believe what you wanna believe ("we're just better at it!", yeah because you're consistently heartless at times, lol), but if I were you, I'd take the history of my people a little more seriously and consider the suffering of others due to my ancestors' crimes, idk.

They need their guns to shoot the browns/blacks/wife and kids. 🤷

The social deregulation of sex (it used to go hand in hand with marriage, even in Europe!) has created a bit of chaos.

What if it accounted for a little bit, the tiniest bit, of our psychological makeup? Would it be so terrible or dangerous of an idea? Not for clear minds and kind hearts, surely. I mean, everyone can swim and everyone can run but you know who's gotta have at least the smallest of edges everything else being equal, right? That's easy to accept, maybe this is just the next frontier, that we're not just tabula rasa, but we have some innate tendencies towards/eases and difficulties regarding A or B the more we have of this or another tribe in us. It's not something I will "die on a hill" for, simply because my evidence is all anecdotal, but 🤷.

Bro, it's not the same and you know it. Equating people and animals only means you have less empathy for people.

They're even worse, as they do it with no emotion. It's cold and calculated.

It's almost entirely cultural, of course, but I do think (I can't prove it, it's just travel and observation) that there are innate psychological differences to people of different tribes. The Congolese, the Austrian and the Nepali are different in a deeper way than nurture can account for, I think.

Legality does not mean morality, come on. If you've lived in the West, you know it perfectly well. Is this what the conversation has come to?

You couldn't know it!

I assumed the dude grabbed it as it was flying out with the chip and just slammed it quickly without much thought. He might have a horrible day/week, just wanted to have some chippies and this happened. Meh. 🤷

You're right! My bad.

I understood but I guess you felt it needed reiteration...

That's fat shaming.